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Wed, 1 May 2013 | By travelcrazy26 | Views [866]
6 months of travel, 6 countries. Nate came to travel with me for a week in Peru and celebrated my birthday with me. It was one of the best weeks of my trip - he lifted my spirits when I was getting burnt out, and he brought an air of good vibes with ... Read more >
Sat, 27 Apr 2013 | By farfalla | Views [406] | Comments [1]
Annina arbeitet bei Trottomundo und so buchten wir den Salkantay-Treck bereits von der Schweiz aus. Wir wollten unbedingt einen Treck machen, der beim Machu Picchu endet, aber nicht so touristisch ist wie der Inka-Trail.
Trotz allem litt ich ... Read more >
Thu, 25 Apr 2013 | By vickisampson | 
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Our journey to Machu Picchu started with a 3 am wake up call in Cusco. We were picked up at 4 am and driven for 1 hour and 45 minutes through the Sacred Valley to Ollantaytambo railway station. Here we boarded our Incarail train to Aguas Calientes (Macchu ...
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Sun, 21 Apr 2013 | By farfalla | Views [331] | Comments [2]
Kathi wusste durch ihren schlauen Dumont-Reisefuehrer, dass die Strecke von Nazca nach Cusco eine der Schoensten Perús sein soll. Dies wollten wir uns nicht entgehen lassen, auch wenn es nicht der typischen Reisestrecke der Busse entsprach. André... Read more >
Sun, 21 Apr 2013 | By joannawong | Views [682]
It's hard to believe that I've now ticked off some major items on my bucket list in the space of two months. The Inca Trail is the latest to be crossed off
Before the trail, I was very anxious and nervous as to how it would pan out. I had ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By kerrycoeshaw | Views [333] | Scholarship Entry
It was November 30th 2012 and I was leaving Iquitos in two hours. I was on a mission driven by unconditional love, to go back to the Amazon rainforest camp that had been home. I was to fetch Woolly Monkey Felipe to take him to Monkey Island where he will ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By ellaviaja | Views [428] | Scholarship Entry
After twenty years, I had finally made it back to the land I called home for the first seven years of my life. I took a deep breath, closed my eyes and released a huge sigh. I opened my eyes and looked down at the fruit of our twenty four hour labor: ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By eakeith | Photo Gallery
Photos from the Inca Trail
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By eakeith | Views [1618] | Scholarship Entry
The porter's eyes twinkle as he passes me the soap. It's dark along the Inca Trail, but moonlight fills the campsite as hikers prepare for bed. As I wash my hands, I ask his name. He winks when he hears my Spanish. "Aderlin." The name slides off his ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By queenofcoldnoses | Views [384] | Scholarship Entry
Pineapples ripen and fall before human hands can find them. Dozens of bird species don vibrant costumes and shriek their theme songs to rattle eardrums on adjacent mountains. It takes only a downwards glance to see ants the size of big toes forming a ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By farfalla | Views [407]
Es ist wohl immer am schwierigsten zu beginnen. Denn wo ist eigentlich der Beginn? Ich glaube diese Reise begann schon im letzten Jahr in der Schweiz, als ich mich das erste Mal wie einen Nomaden fuehlte:) Es war eine voellig neue Erfahrung ohne meine ... Read more >
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By gabrielapalma | Views [438] | Scholarship Entry
My head was resting on a padded surface, I blinked rapidly and glimpsed her colorful red predominant blur, I sensed her body heat, and Dear lord she stinks. I am exhausted and I was starting to feel trapped, she was a little big but the colorful woolen ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By tadzjo | Views [441] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
We must have been the same age, and yet the differences between our lives could be expressed in light-years. Stars sprinkled above the Incan Capital, when I almost tripped over four small colorful socks and witnessed something I couldn’t just walk away ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By ayahuasca | Views [414] | Scholarship Entry
Swimming in the Pacific one day, on a board in an Andean market the next – that's the fate of a sea bass bound for the traditional Peruvian dish of cerviche. However interesting the debates on the origin of the dish might be they miss a crucial aspect ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By yo_veo | Views [363] | Scholarship Entry
Antonieta is dead. I was slowly aroused from my slumber by the sounds of honking horns, heavy and heaving with the frustration of the drivers behind the wheels of the bruised up, knocked up, beaten up micros and combis careening through the narrow and ... Read more >
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